Chapter notes
Chapter 16 - NOTES
1. This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapters 2 or 3.
2 . Food preparations fall in this Chapter provided that
they contain more than 20% by weight of sausage, meat,
meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other
aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof. In
cases where the preparation contains two or more of the
products mentioned above, it is classified in the heading
of Chapter 16 corresponding to the component or components
which predominate by weight. These provisions do not apply
to the stuffed products of heading No 19.02 or to the
preparations of heading No. 21.03 or 21.04.
SUBHEADING NOTES
1. For the puposes of subheading No. 16.02.10, the
expression "homogenised preparations" means preparations
of meat, meat offal or blood, finely homogenised, put up
for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes,
in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g.
For the application of this definition no account is to be
taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may
have been added to the preparation for seasoning,
preservation or other purposes. These preparations may
contain a small quantity of visible pieces of meat or meat
offal. This subheading takes precedence over all other
subheadings of heading No 16.02.
2. The fish and crustaceans specified in the subheadings
of heading No. 16.04 or 16.05 under their common names
only, are of the same species as those mentioned in
Chapter 3 under the same name.
